askewadv.n.adj.

Brit.

/əˈskjuː/, U.S.

/əˈskju/

Forms: 1500s ascue, 1500s askiew, 1500s–1600s ascew, 1500s–1600s askewe, 1500s– askew, 1600s ascewe, 1500s–1700s askue.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Perhaps a borrowing from French Etymons: a- prefix³, skew v.²; French escu, eschu.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < a- prefix³ + skew v.² (compare later skew adj., skew adv.), or perhaps directly < Anglo-Norman escu, variant of eschieu, escheu, eschiu, eschiew, eschu shy, remote, aloof, hostile (see eschew adj. and compare related verbal forms at eschew v.¹ and skew v.²). However, compare also askoy adv. and askance adv., both of which are attested earlier in a similar range of senses and constructions; if these words are unrelated in etymology, they must have become associated with one another by speakers from an early date, and have probably exerted some influence on one another.

A. adv.

1. With verbs of seeing, observing, or regarding. Chiefly in to look askew.

a. From the corner of one's eye; obliquely; sideways (in later use sometimes surreptitiously).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by facial expression

snurtc1440

to look askew1538

scance1611

to fall a lip of contempta1616

flurn1656

sneer1734

to curl the lip1816

snigger1823

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look sideways

schule?c1225

to look asidec1230

bagge1369

gogglec1380

to look awryc1400

slizec1400

leer1530

to look askew1538

skew1570

gloat1576

to glance one's eye, look1590

squean1608

squinny1608

squint1610

sken1611

sleer1680

glime1684

skime1691

side-glance1799

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Limis oculis spectare, to loke wantonly on the one syde, to cast a wanton eie, to loke a skewe.

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 12^v Hir lyppes were pale, hir cheekes were wan... She lookad eke a skiew [1567 a skew].

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. 448 His fiery eies..glared bright and wyde, Glauncing askew, as if his enemies He scorned in his ouerweening pryde.

a1637 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor (rev. ed.) v. i, in Wks. (1640) I. 135 Let her fleer, and look a scew [1600, 1616 a skaunce], and hide her Teeth with her Fan.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 427/1 Squint Eyed, to sken or look awry, to see askew, or asslent.

1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. ii. x. 272 Her large blue Eyes..would have lost all their Amiableness, and have looked askew an hundred ways at once.

1793 Town & Country Mag. Nov. 518/2 Nature's operations tend To some design, some certain end,..Yet what can be her secret view In forming some [sc. eyes] to look askew.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. x. 244 The boy, looking askew at him with his sharp grey eyes.

1899 B. Capes Lady of Darkness xix. 156 He paused a moment, glancing askew at his companion.

1936 J. G. Frazer Aftermath: Suppl. Golden Bough i. 56 By turning his eyes to right and left the father will, through contagious magic, cause the child to look askew.

1996 C. D. Luce Night Game i. 8 Her wide-eyed gaze did not leave his until he reached her side, at which time she glanced askew at something on the nightstand.

b. figurative. With disdain, contempt, or suspicion. Chiefly with on, †upon, or at.

ΚΠ

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians xxxii. 239 The faythfull are despized folke, men vouchsafe not too looke vpon them but a skew.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 105^v He began to looke askewe vpon Camilla.

1636 T. Heywood Challenge for Beautie ii. sig. C4 All I meete..looke askue, and point, and laugh at mee.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 25 Aug. (1970) II. 161 My Lady Batten and her daughter to look something askew upon my wife, because my wife..is not sollicitous for their acquaintance.

1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials I. xxiii. 167 For some expressions..that looked askew upon the King's supremacy..he was laid in hold.

1792 J. Wolcot Remonstrance (new ed.) 23 There are, who on my verses look askew, And call my lyric lucubrations stuff.

1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 124 But Nelly Cook askew did look.

1871 E. Tabor Diary of Novelist 141 And Jane Mead, I've seen her look askew at my old black shawl ever since she got that bran-new cloak of hers.

1874 Westm. Rev. July 108/2 Mr Jenkins glances somewhat askew at England.

1996 K. Nielsen Naturalism without Found. iii. x. 300 Postmodernists..have also..looked askew at the growth of the authority of science in modem cultures.

2001 Daily Deal (N.Y.) (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Venture Capital section) While DeveloGen isn't betting on stock market funding, the company won't look askew at a public offering if valuations improve.

a. At an oblique angle; to one side; aside. In later use: out of the usual or correct position; crookedly, lopsidedly.Chiefly describing the result of a verb such as wrench or heave, or the manner of a verb such as hang, lie, or run.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > askew

acrooka1387

wrongc1440

overthwartlya1470

adoylea1475

awry1487

crooked1545

across1559

askew1565

cam1579

alurk1581

skew-whiff1754

a-twist1755

agley1786

skeow-ways1869

off-kilter1929

the world > space > direction > [adverb] > off the direct line > obliquely

asidec1369

aslanta1400

slant1495

obliquely1503

asklenta1540

askew1565

slantingly1570

slantwise1573

wry1575

bias?1578

askance1590

askant1602

slantinga1625

asquint1645

across1700

slantly1719

akimboc1796

slantways1828

aslantwise1852

slantingways1899

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] > obliquely

aslanta1400

sideslepes?a1400

embelifc1400

slant1495

obliquely1503

slantling?1521

askance1530

asklenta1540

biaswise1545

askew1565

wry1575

bias?1578

slentwise1579

overthwartly1591

asquint1645

transversally1648

aslope1667

slantways1828

skeow-ways1869

slantingways1899

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 3 A brode byway cut out a skew that bendeth on the syde.

1588 C. Lucar tr. N. Tartaglia 3 Bks. Shooting i. xxiii. sig. D4 How it may be knowne whether a Peece which was neuer discharged or shot in, will shoote..a scue from the marke.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 115 The Serpent goes a skue..winding and wreathing its body.

1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 9 And wrench'd the Poles some Leagues yet more askew.

1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket i. 5 When the Ball, close cushion'd, slides askew, And to the op'ning Pocket runs.

1768 W. Smith Diss. Nerves i. iii. 61 If, by a fall,..the nerves are struck askew; then the person loses the use of his reason.

1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) ii. vi. 367 Lattice-blinds all hanging askew.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2172/1 Side-axe, an axe with a handle bent somewhat askew, to prevent striking the hand.

1926 D. Canfield Her Son's Wife iii. xx. 144 The spotted table cloth lay askew on the table.

1999 A. Arensberg Incubus iii. ix. 98 Wet moss, patches of black ice, and bricks heaved askew by past frosts.

b. figurative. Wrong, amiss, badly. Frequently in to go askew: to turn out badly or untowardly; to go awry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb]

evil971

unsellyc1275

chancefully1303

wrother-heala1325

badlyc1325

illc1325

ungraciouslyc1330

unhappilyc1374

evil haila1400

infortunately1442

shame to saya1450

ill haila1500

unluckily1530

unfortunately1548

unluckly1573

bad1575

haplessly1582

disasterly1593

lucklessly1596

untowardly1649

misfortunatelya1686

askew1858

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb] > unfavourably

illc1325

contrariouslyc1380

amissa1425

contrary1497

sinisterly1529

overthwart1556

thwartingly1579

froward1580

adversely1593

crossly1597

unpropitiously1602

cross1603

disfavourably1654

cloudily1792

unfavourably1833

askew1858

the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] > inauspiciously

amissa1425

sinisterlyc1465

awkly1564

untowardly1569

portentously1596

sinistrously1607

ominously1611

inauspiciously1684

portentiously1804

askew1858

1858 Bristol Mercury 20 Mar. 6/1 Unredeemed pledges and hopes gone askew.

1892 E. Campbell Austral. Childhood (2006) viii. 31 With the best possible intentions everything I undertook went askew in some curious manner.

1939 3rd Bk. Small Houses p. viii An apparently endless series of activities that would fall askew if not filtered and properly related by the trained judicial mind of a co-ordinator.

1975 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. Spring 187 Clearly something has gone askew in the analysis.

1999 M. Joseph & J. Fink Performing Hybridity 91 The choice of an American Indian stereotype in Brazil is more complicated still. It sets askew the process of carnivalization by putting it in an international context.

2006 Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) (Nexis) 12 Oct. a11 His government's priorities have run askew.

†B. n.

A sideways glance. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > sideways

side-lookinga1500

side looka1586

blench1609

side glance1611

leera1616

skew1622

askewa1641

gloat1645

glega1650

by-glancea1658

squint1673

by-view1753

sklent1818

glee1828

squinny1902

a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) ii. i. sig. B4^v Her face, the trick of her eye, her leer, her blink, her askue.

C. adj.

Oblique, slanted, set at an angle. In later use: twisted, crooked, awry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > askew

obliquate?a1425

cama1600

ajee1816

askew1831

skew-whiff1839

splay1873

catawampous1885

skewgee1890

cockeye1891

boss-eyed1898

skewy1898

cockeyed1899

squiffy1941

akimbo1943

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hii^v/1 A Skewe, limus.]

1831 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Feb. 80 The tenons it appears are to be cut by a jointer furnished with an askew iron.

1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. III. iv. 162 A room over the street, which rests on an askew arch, of clever construction.

1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xv. 165 In time the tail becomes quite askew.

1923 War Dept. Appropriation Bill, 1923 (U.S. Senate, Subcomm. of Comm. Appropriations, 67th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 288 That proposed bridge..gives a sort of an askew appearance to the whole Mall.

2005 N. Laird Utterly Monkey 63 She had one slightly askew front tooth. It just made her look even sweeter.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	askew
释义	askewadv.n.adj. Brit. /əˈskjuː/, U.S. /əˈskju/ Forms: 1500s ascue, 1500s askiew, 1500s–1600s ascew, 1500s–1600s askewe, 1500s– askew, 1600s ascewe, 1500s–1700s askue. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Perhaps a borrowing from French Etymons: a- prefix³, skew v.²; French escu, eschu. Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < a- prefix³ + skew v.² (compare later skew adj., skew adv.), or perhaps directly < Anglo-Norman escu, variant of eschieu, escheu, eschiu, eschiew, eschu shy, remote, aloof, hostile (see eschew adj. and compare related verbal forms at eschew v.¹ and skew v.²). However, compare also askoy adv. and askance adv., both of which are attested earlier in a similar range of senses and constructions; if these words are unrelated in etymology, they must have become associated with one another by speakers from an early date, and have probably exerted some influence on one another. A. adv. 1. With verbs of seeing, observing, or regarding. Chiefly in to look askew. a. From the corner of one's eye; obliquely; sideways (in later use sometimes surreptitiously). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by facial expression snurtc1440 to look askew1538 scance1611 to fall a lip of contempta1616 flurn1656 sneer1734 to curl the lip1816 snigger1823 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look sideways schule?c1225 to look asidec1230 bagge1369 gogglec1380 to look awryc1400 slizec1400 leer1530 to look askew1538 skew1570 gloat1576 to glance one's eye, look1590 squean1608 squinny1608 squint1610 sken1611 sleer1680 glime1684 skime1691 side-glance1799 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Limis oculis spectare, to loke wantonly on the one syde, to cast a wanton eie, to loke a skewe. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 12^v Hir lyppes were pale, hir cheekes were wan... She lookad eke a skiew [1567 a skew]. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. vii. 448 His fiery eies..glared bright and wyde, Glauncing askew, as if his enemies He scorned in his ouerweening pryde. View more context for this quotation a1637 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor (rev. ed.) v. i, in Wks. (1640) I. 135 Let her fleer, and look a scew [1600, 1616 a skaunce], and hide her Teeth with her Fan. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 427/1 Squint Eyed, to sken or look awry, to see askew, or asslent. 1744 S. Fielding Adventures David Simple I. ii. x. 272 Her large blue Eyes..would have lost all their Amiableness, and have looked askew an hundred ways at once. 1793 Town & Country Mag. Nov. 518/2 Nature's operations tend To some design, some certain end,..Yet what can be her secret view In forming some [sc. eyes] to look askew. 1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. x. 244 The boy, looking askew at him with his sharp grey eyes. 1899 B. Capes Lady of Darkness xix. 156 He paused a moment, glancing askew at his companion. 1936 J. G. Frazer Aftermath: Suppl. Golden Bough i. 56 By turning his eyes to right and left the father will, through contagious magic, cause the child to look askew. 1996 C. D. Luce Night Game i. 8 Her wide-eyed gaze did not leave his until he reached her side, at which time she glanced askew at something on the nightstand. b. figurative. With disdain, contempt, or suspicion. Chiefly with on, †upon, or at. ΚΠ 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians xxxii. 239 The faythfull are despized folke, men vouchsafe not too looke vpon them but a skew. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 105^v He began to looke askewe vpon Camilla. 1636 T. Heywood Challenge for Beautie ii. sig. C4 All I meete..looke askue, and point, and laugh at mee. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 25 Aug. (1970) II. 161 My Lady Batten and her daughter to look something askew upon my wife, because my wife..is not sollicitous for their acquaintance. 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials I. xxiii. 167 For some expressions..that looked askew upon the King's supremacy..he was laid in hold. 1792 J. Wolcot Remonstrance (new ed.) 23 There are, who on my verses look askew, And call my lyric lucubrations stuff. 1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 124 But Nelly Cook askew did look. 1871 E. Tabor Diary of Novelist 141 And Jane Mead, I've seen her look askew at my old black shawl ever since she got that bran-new cloak of hers. 1874 Westm. Rev. July 108/2 Mr Jenkins glances somewhat askew at England. 1996 K. Nielsen Naturalism without Found. iii. x. 300 Postmodernists..have also..looked askew at the growth of the authority of science in modem cultures. 2001 Daily Deal (N.Y.) (Nexis) 19 Apr. (Venture Capital section) While DeveloGen isn't betting on stock market funding, the company won't look askew at a public offering if valuations improve. 2. a. At an oblique angle; to one side; aside. In later use: out of the usual or correct position; crookedly, lopsidedly.Chiefly describing the result of a verb such as wrench or heave, or the manner of a verb such as hang, lie, or run. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adverb] > askew acrooka1387 wrongc1440 overthwartlya1470 adoylea1475 awry1487 crooked1545 across1559 askew1565 cam1579 alurk1581 skew-whiff1754 a-twist1755 agley1786 skeow-ways1869 off-kilter1929 the world > space > direction > [adverb] > off the direct line > obliquely asidec1369 aslanta1400 slant1495 obliquely1503 asklenta1540 askew1565 slantingly1570 slantwise1573 wry1575 bias?1578 askance1590 askant1602 slantinga1625 asquint1645 across1700 slantly1719 akimboc1796 slantways1828 aslantwise1852 slantingways1899 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [adverb] > obliquely aslanta1400 sideslepes?a1400 embelifc1400 slant1495 obliquely1503 slantling?1521 askance1530 asklenta1540 biaswise1545 askew1565 wry1575 bias?1578 slentwise1579 overthwartly1591 asquint1645 transversally1648 aslope1667 slantways1828 skeow-ways1869 slantingways1899 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 3 A brode byway cut out a skew that bendeth on the syde. 1588 C. Lucar tr. N. Tartaglia 3 Bks. Shooting i. xxiii. sig. D4 How it may be knowne whether a Peece which was neuer discharged or shot in, will shoote..a scue from the marke. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 115 The Serpent goes a skue..winding and wreathing its body. 1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur i. 9 And wrench'd the Poles some Leagues yet more askew. 1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket i. 5 When the Ball, close cushion'd, slides askew, And to the op'ning Pocket runs. 1768 W. Smith Diss. Nerves i. iii. 61 If, by a fall,..the nerves are struck askew; then the person loses the use of his reason. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) ii. vi. 367 Lattice-blinds all hanging askew. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2172/1 Side-axe, an axe with a handle bent somewhat askew, to prevent striking the hand. 1926 D. Canfield Her Son's Wife iii. xx. 144 The spotted table cloth lay askew on the table. 1999 A. Arensberg Incubus iii. ix. 98 Wet moss, patches of black ice, and bricks heaved askew by past frosts. b. figurative. Wrong, amiss, badly. Frequently in to go askew: to turn out badly or untowardly; to go awry. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] evil971 unsellyc1275 chancefully1303 wrother-heala1325 badlyc1325 illc1325 ungraciouslyc1330 unhappilyc1374 evil haila1400 infortunately1442 shame to saya1450 ill haila1500 unluckily1530 unfortunately1548 unluckly1573 bad1575 haplessly1582 disasterly1593 lucklessly1596 untowardly1649 misfortunatelya1686 askew1858 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [adverb] > unfavourably illc1325 contrariouslyc1380 amissa1425 contrary1497 sinisterly1529 overthwart1556 thwartingly1579 froward1580 adversely1593 crossly1597 unpropitiously1602 cross1603 disfavourably1654 cloudily1792 unfavourably1833 askew1858 the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb] > inauspiciously amissa1425 sinisterlyc1465 awkly1564 untowardly1569 portentously1596 sinistrously1607 ominously1611 inauspiciously1684 portentiously1804 askew1858 1858 Bristol Mercury 20 Mar. 6/1 Unredeemed pledges and hopes gone askew. 1892 E. Campbell Austral. Childhood (2006) viii. 31 With the best possible intentions everything I undertook went askew in some curious manner. 1939 3rd Bk. Small Houses p. viii An apparently endless series of activities that would fall askew if not filtered and properly related by the trained judicial mind of a co-ordinator. 1975 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. Spring 187 Clearly something has gone askew in the analysis. 1999 M. Joseph & J. Fink Performing Hybridity 91 The choice of an American Indian stereotype in Brazil is more complicated still. It sets askew the process of carnivalization by putting it in an international context. 2006 Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, Sask.) (Nexis) 12 Oct. a11 His government's priorities have run askew. †B. n. A sideways glance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > sideways side-lookinga1500 side looka1586 blench1609 side glance1611 leera1616 skew1622 askewa1641 gloat1645 glega1650 by-glancea1658 squint1673 by-view1753 sklent1818 glee1828 squinny1902 a1641 T. Heywood & W. Rowley Fortune by Land & Sea (1655) ii. i. sig. B4^v Her face, the trick of her eye, her leer, her blink, her askue. C. adj. Oblique, slanted, set at an angle. In later use: twisted, crooked, awry. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > askew obliquate?a1425 cama1600 ajee1816 askew1831 skew-whiff1839 splay1873 catawampous1885 skewgee1890 cockeye1891 boss-eyed1898 skewy1898 cockeyed1899 squiffy1941 akimbo1943 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hii^v/1 A Skewe, limus.] 1831 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Feb. 80 The tenons it appears are to be cut by a jointer furnished with an askew iron. 1859 J. H. Parker Some Acct. Domest. Archit. III. iv. 162 A room over the street, which rests on an askew arch, of clever construction. 1871 C. Darwin Descent of Man II. xv. 165 In time the tail becomes quite askew. 1923 War Dept. Appropriation Bill, 1923 (U.S. Senate, Subcomm. of Comm. Appropriations, 67th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 288 That proposed bridge..gives a sort of an askew appearance to the whole Mall. 2005 N. Laird Utterly Monkey 63 She had one slightly askew front tooth. It just made her look even sweeter. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.n.adj.1538
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